The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
by Doris Lessing

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
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Author: Doris Lessing
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 1982-01-12
ISBN: 039451906X
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Knopf

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Book Review: A story of strength
Summary: 5 Stars

The people of Planet Eight had happy, productive lives. They seemed born with knowledge of themselves and their visible environment. With Canopus' teaching, they were developing as a culture, strengthening their social structures and integrating new knowledge into their world-view. They knew that their whole people had a future planned among the stars, as citizens of star-spanning society.

Then their sunny, warm planet started to chill. Within a generation, tropical landscape became snowscape everywhere on the planet. Conditions changed so that the promise of their future could not be kept.

It takes some time for the stage to be set properly, but I think this where the real story begins. It is about a people struggling to adapt to increasingly harsh truths presented by the world around them. As conditions worsen, they harden themselves to successively more drastic steps that must be taken to survive. That, I think, is the tragedy of this story: the determination to survive, knowing that the only way goes against all that ever mattered to them. It is about the personal cost of sustaining faith and hope in the face of crushing realities.

More than the others in Lessing's Canopus series, I find this book ambiguous. It is as well written and well paced as the others, and it conveys the same serenity and certainty. This book, however, addresses especially complex issues. I do not share the view that Lessing expresses. I don't have to, though, to appreciate this as a remarkable, personal expression.

Summary of The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 is the fourth volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'.

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